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A female Saudi journalist has been sentenced to 60 lashes for her involvement in a TV show that featured a man detailing his sexual conquests. The court also banned Rosanna Al-Yami from leaving the country for two years, sources tell CNN. She is believed to be the first Saudi journalist ever sentenced to lashes, though it's not clear she was even involved in the controversial episode.

Al-Yama works for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. as a show coordinator, but she apparently had no direct involvement in the episode of "A Thick Red Line" that caused all the fuss. No matter—the judge sentenced her as a "deterrence," she tells the AP. "I am too frustrated and upset to appeal the sentence," she adds. As for the man who boasted of his sex life on the show: he's currently serving a 5-year sentence.

LOL. For a "pragmatic realist" you sure talk like an idealist. I think coal is terrible. It wrecks the scenery AND spews CO2 worse than oil. We are just stuck with it for making electricity for a while. Thats now things work NOW, not is some Start Trek future. Personally, I'd rather breathe more CO2 than radioactive iodine or more carbon 14. Not having to live through a world wide depression is also a plus. That being the case, natural gas is pretty attractive when combined with renewables if you're not an extreme idealogue about carbon emissions. There is always the hope that some obscure physicist will figure out a magic solution like cold fusion but we cannot count on that. People could always stop breeding like rabbits too but that just about as unlikely. Mass plague and world war would also solve the problem. One thing I know for sure, people who advocate simple solutions to complex and subtle problems should probably go back to school.